If it is silver plated, the edge would be the same silver color as the rest of the coin. If it is silver clad, the edge should show the core to...
Krause says Loonies are "aureate bronze plated nickel." The coins pictured here look more like nickel than silver. You can check that with a...
Will they give you your cash back? As for whether you want it back or not depends on what kind of a gambler you are. If you bought them for the...
Not only do you have a real loss, but you will be asked to pay income tax on the $2,600 "gain," adding insult to injury. I've been collecting...
Very nice. Looks like someone's World War II souvenirs. I like coins from other countries made in the USA. The 1944 1/10 gulden from Curaçao was...
1947 Costa Rica 10 Centimos doubled die reverse.[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
It has had much abuse. However, for future consideration, you should not hold any coin that might have collector value with metal tweezers or...
A "Buy it now" currently on ebay:...
Here is one on ebay:...
Hand engraving tool. Somebody tried tracing the building for whatever reason. Looks like they were trying out their new toy.
I agree, it looks like a jeton, whether or not of the Nuremberg series, but I'm no expert. It doesn't look like a coin to me. This is my only...
Most definitely lepton, not prutah. In the Greek New Testament, both Mark (Mark 12:42) and Luke (Luke 21:2) use the word lepton.
Looks to me like definitely 1869.
In addition to the above excellent comments, I suspect the velocity of money (how often it changed hands) was much slower, causing less wear than...
Remember in the early days of US coinage, there were actually relatively few US coins. Foreign coins of all sorts circulated in gold and silver,...
Thanks!
Where would one procure such a potion?
At least he doesn't claim FB. :)
At least no one bought it!
Greek numerals were even more cumbersome than Roman numerals. Each letter of the alphabet stood for a number: alpha=1, beta+2, etc. (plus a...
Separate names with a comma.
